Lamentations 4:10

(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

Lamentations 2:20

(Resh) Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord's sanctuary?

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

Jeremiah 19:9

I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another."'"

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

Deuteronomy 28:53-57

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

2 Kings 6:26-29

While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, "Help us, my master, O king!"

Lamentations 3:48

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

Lamentations 4:3

(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

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Summary

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Pitiful

General references

Bible References

Hands

Lamentations 4:3
(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.
Lamentations 2:20
(Resh) Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord's sanctuary?
2 Kings 6:26
While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, "Help us, my master, O king!"

Pitiful

Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

In

Lamentations 3:48
Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:56
Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, 'Hand over your son and we'll eat him.' But she hid her son!"

General references

Matthew 24:19
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!
Mark 13:17
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

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